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Nano-scale fuel cells may be closer than we think, thanks to an inexpensive new manufacturing method
Mar 12, 2006 |
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We live in a world of hand-held devices: iPods, cell phones, PDAs, pagers... the list of essential personal technology keeps expanding, and the natural response is consolidation. It’s rare these days to see ...
Running electronics using light
Oct 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "If you open up almost any electronic gadget, you will see various elements that operating using electric circuitries," Nader Engheta tells PhysOrg.com. "Many of them have different functi ...
Self-Programming Hybrid Memristor/Transistor Circuit Could Continue Moore's Law
Feb 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As researchers strive to increase the density and functionality of circuit elements onto computer chips, one newer option they have is a memory resistor (or “memristor”), the fourth passive ...
Scientists See Smallest-Ever Square Nanotube
Feb 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have observed the smallest reported nanotube that has a square cross-section. The structure formed spontaneously and unexpectedly when silver nanowires were stretched and is a reminder ...
'Core-Shell' Silicon Nanowires May Improve Lithium-Ion Batteries
Jan 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have found a way to incorporate silicon into the structure of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, which are used to power a wide variety of portable electronic devices, including ...
New 'Nanowelding' Technique for Building Electronic Nanostructures
Dec 29, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered a way to link nanowires and other nanoobjects into complex nanostructures and circuits by fusing them together with tiny amounts of solder. The researchers, from ...
High-Temp Superconducting Nanowire System is First of its Kind
Nov 26, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from the California Institute of Technology have, for the first time, created an array of nanowires that are superconducting at relatively high temperatures. This work, published ...
New Nanowire-Based Memory Could Beef Up Information Storage
Jul 02, 2008 |
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Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have created a type of nanowire-based information storage device that is capable of storing three bit values rather than the usual two—that is, "0," "1," and ...
Scientists Make 'Perfect' Nanowires
Jan 23, 2008 |
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Scientists have created silicon nanowires that are perfect—at least atomically. Down at the single-atom level, the identical wires have no bumps, bends, or other imperfections. They are perfectly crystalline, even more so ...
New Flexible, Transparent Transistors made of Nanotubes
Nov 27, 2007 |
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The ability to create flexible, transparent electronics could lead to a host of novel applications, such as e-paper and electronic car windshields. Now, scientists have constructed a transistor made of a network ...
See-through transistor fabricated for future e-displays
Jul 27, 2007 |
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Scientists have recently taken an important step toward the development of “see-through” flexible electronic displays by fabricating fully transparent, high-speed nanowire transistors. This piece of circuitry, ...
Indium arsenide may provide clues to quantum information processing
Jul 23, 2007 |
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“We’re not saying we’ve built a quantum computer,” Andreas Fuhrer tells PhysOrg.com, “but this is an important first step towards spin manipulation via the spin-orbit interaction.”
'Blown Bubble' Method Disperses Nanostructures Over Large Areas
Jun 22, 2007 |
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Researchers from Harvard University and the University of Hawaii at Manoa recently announced a new method for organizing nanowires and carbon nanotubes across large areas: blowing bubbles.
Scientists Hand-Make Devices Smaller than 10 Nanometers
Apr 27, 2007 |
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A research team from the University of Pennsylvania has used an electron beam to hand-carve ultra-small metal structures and devices, all with dimensions below 10 nanometers, from very thin metal sheets. Their ...
Nanoscale 'Coaxial Cables' for Solar Energy Harvesting
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 23, 2007 |
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Scientists have designed a new type of nanowire – a tiny coaxial cable – that could vastly improve a few key renewable energy technologies, particularly solar cells, and could even impact other cutting-edge, ...
